Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A long, long time ago, in a land known as America, cities created municipal departments to serve the essential needs of the community in the most efficient way. The Police Department, Fire Department, and yes…even the Water Department were municipal not-for-profit necessities operated by a local municipality to efficiently serve public interests, convenience…

Dear Editor, Sadly, television has become the lobotomy of children’s imagination. Before its advent, we played outdoors and created our own games. We played Tag-You’re-It, Pirates, Cowboys and Indians – or whatever games we made up. In those days there was no adult-supervised structured recreation for children. We had no soccer practice, no little league…

Dear Editor, During my young adulthood, I earned minimum wages washing dishes, washing cars, scrubbing toilets, and mopping floors – and sadly, even less when unscrupulous entrepreneurs found ways to exploit their workers and pay them below the required minimum wage. As for myself, the daydreams I held throughout those years of struggle and drudgery…

Dear Editor, I really can’t fault millennial men for ditching suits and ties. After all, Richard Nixon wore a suit and tie when he told the nation that he wasn’t a crook. He was lying; he was a crook. Henry Kissinger was also wearing a suit and tie when he told the nation that the U.S….

Dear Editor, Beacon Media News – Monrovia Weekly is all the community news without the spin. Special thanks goes out to reporter Susan Motander for a fine piece of journalism, reporting on the recent city council meeting concerning community media of the foothills. The story was reported the very same way as it played out…

Dear Editor, For a number of years, like many others, I too fell under the spell of the ever-smiling Dalai Lama. That is, until reality awakened me, and I learned that the CIA was paying His Holiness (the Buddhist monk sworn to poverty) the handsome annual salary of $186,000 to keep alive the myth that all…

With a flash across the evening news, Monrovia’s local station claimeda sighting of celebrities, who had recently gained fame.They had appeared upon the scene, not very long ago,and now their photos could be gleaned on every TV Show. There were never two more handsome than these, free on the run.No finer pairs of great brown…

Dear Editor, Despite the evidence that our nation has the most gun violence among developed countries, isn’t it perverse that legislators in many states continue to enact “right to carry” laws? It’s an irony that guns were far better controlled during the years of the lawless Wild West, than they are today. Remember Wyatt Earp, the “law…

Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading your article, Monica. You, and all the Millennials about whom you write, are in good company! I’m thinking about Jesus, who favored a life unburdened by material wants. Oh!…how he soared to poetic heights when he told his disciples in Matthew 6:25: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall…

Dear Editor, I am a 15 year old high school student and a member of the Monrovia Coalition to Reduce Teen Smoking. I see kids my age smoking cigarettes and even vaping. They don’t believe that smoking will cause any permanent damage to them because they are still young, and they think the e-cigs are…